Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday inaugurated 12,430 classrooms and said their construction was equivalent to building 250 schools. He also said that the government schools in Delhi have such facilities which may not be present in private schools. The buildings that house these new classrooms have state-of-the-art laboratories, spacious libraries, staff rooms with modern facilities and multipurpose halls for large-scale events and provision of lifts and ramps, making them different. Dostana, a government statement said.
“I am happy to share that the process of constructing 11,000 classrooms, which started almost three years ago, has resulted in 12,430 classrooms ready for inauguration today,” Kejriwal said. He said that accomplishing this target within just three years is a big surprise in itself as to how things work in our country.
“We have seen election gimmicks where foundations of schools and hospitals are laid every season, but the real results are not seen, the actual construction never takes place,” the chief minister said. Kejriwal congratulated the people of Delhi especially the teachers and students on this occasion.
“Imagine what amounts to 12,430 classes for the education sector when a new school is built for classes up to 10th, with a maximum of 20-50 classes. If we calculate the number of schools with 50 classes per school, it translates into the development of around 250 new schools,” he said.
Kejriwal said these new buildings would include highly functional laboratories, multi-purpose halls, as well as digital classrooms, backed by the latest state-of-the-art technology for teaching. “The facilities which were perhaps not seen in the best private schools are now available in government schools in Delhi,” he said.
Kejriwal’s deputy Manish Sisodia, who holds the education portfolio, said schools are not built just by building tall buildings, they are built by the faith of teachers and students. “We have created amazing infrastructure, developed the best curriculum out there, but now it is the duty of every child and every teacher to convert these buildings into schools,” he said.
“The schools that have been inaugurated now have smart classrooms, and they are slowly converting to digital classrooms as well. I am working on it personally. Sisodia said that we had announced in the last budget that we will gradually convert all our classrooms to modern digital classrooms in the next four to five years. For the first time in India, children will be able to study digitally. He claimed that today Delhi has the most modern classrooms in the world. “I call upon my teachers that the best classroom in the world is now in your hands. Make the children in your care the best citizens of the world,” Sisodia said.
He claimed that so far 3.7 lakh children have been enrolled in Delhi’s government schools, leaving big private schools. “Their parents are also proud that the future of our children is being nurtured in these schools in this way,” he said.
PWD Minister Satyendar Jain tweeted, “Today Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated 12,430 state-of-the-art new classrooms in 240 government schools in Delhi at an event organized at SKV Rajokri.” He said that with the development of modern infrastructure, a new image of government schools will emerge and a revolutionary change will be seen in the education system of Delhi.
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